Current Events that Relate to History
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Comparison
How Would Kash Patel Compare to J. Edgar Hoover?
If Trump’s pick to lead the F.B.I. gets confirmed, the Bureau could be politicized in ways that even its notorious first director would have rejected.The New Yorker -
Book Review
The Poverty of Homeownership
On both sides of the color line, to own one’s home remains synonymous with freedom—even as real estate has proven itself to be relentlessly unequal.Public Books -
Debunk
Sentimentalizing Federalist Ten
A mood still prevailing in the liberal resistance to Trump keeps pushing us backward.Hogeland's Bad History -
Book Excerpt
American Marxism Got Lost on Campus
At universities, American Marxism has led to good scholarship, but it’s also encouraged hyper-specialization and the use of impenetrable jargon.Jacobin -
Obituary
The Late Great Hal Lindsey
The ideas he popularized will continue to shape evangelicalism for generations to come.Religion News Service -
Book Review
Was "Fat Is a Feminist Issue" Liberating? Or Weight-Loss Propaganda?
Susie Orbach’s 1978 book is a fascinating snapshot of diet and physical culture in a very different era.The New Republic -
exhibit
American Foodways
This exhibit explores the history of the ways Americans eat, from the influences on our cooking to the regional specificities of our meals to the ways we celebrate around family tables.
From the HNN Archive
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Letting the World Scream
In 1984, the U.S. rejected the International Court of Justice’s jurisdiction, revealing its tendency to ignore international rules it sees as unfavorable — even when it helped write them. -
Ohio’s Little-Known Fascist Member of Congress
How a local prosecutor protected white supremacists and went on to a career in Washington, DC. -
The Other Sherman’s March
How the younger brother of the famous general set out to destroy the scourge of monopoly power. -
Why Does American History Feel Like Ancient History to High School Students?
An argument for returning the recent past, and the history of modern conservatism, to classrooms. -
The Forebears of JD Vance and the New Right
Revisiting the Agrarian-Distributists and their fabrication of an American past. -
Regency Sex Ed
How did women in 19th-century Europe learn about the birds and the bees?